The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-23
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maccaroni, grease and some other things. l ats
there yesterday. Into the room came a womaB
who first attracted my attention by the fact that
he wore neither hat nor wrap. and was there<
fore rnanifessly a lodeer. When looked again
her face became familiar.
''Wno is she2" asked of Morello; ST recog,
nize her face well enough but / can't place
her.
THAT is my wife," said the caterer
Then probably have not seen her, was
mistaken"
20. no; she is Cornalba. tie danseuse"
Thus are our stage fairies shockingly related
to hundrum life.
The largest assercb blages OF feminins beauty in
America at what are called ''professionaIf
or authors matinses in this city. On these
occasions thehouse is practcallyifree to actresses
at a time oflfdisengagement One of them oc-
Cured this week At least six hundred women
were there. and the majority were young act
resses, ranging from Mrs LanRtrv and Mrs.
burlesques and comic opera choruses. Langtry
sat between a girl from the mute but lovely rear
row of current travesty and pupi! from
school of acting. either OF whom hand
somer than she. Whsn it is considered that
physical beauty is the most important element
in the selection Of actresses. and that New York
is the market for histrionic aspirsnts, it can be
believed that an audence SO largely composed
OF actresses was marselously handsome. A good
rety of beautiful faces, and their actressy pictur
esqueness of attire, would be a picture to never
tire of looking at.
A woman somewhat distinguished in social
life said to me- Il have been greatly edited
with description in series of articles on the
effect upon women of the new order of things in
New York, which brings several thousands Of
girls into relations wi tn men in business The
articles filled with interviews with men
who all declared that il anything was needed to
make the fair sex perfect 1t was TO set them side
n
Offices and counting-rooms down town. These
gentlemen forgot what all the great writers OF
mystery past finding out. and all leap into the
subject boldly only to find it over their depth
and to be put to the necessity Of swimming ont
uneracefuily The manager OF telegraph
Office remarks that the girls in his
employ pick ont tho best operators for
husbands, as il that was a proof
of their smartness, whereas il they
wonderfully keen they would not marry any
telegra oh operators at all, not even the best
He declares that this new race OF women, tho
typewriters. clerks cashiers and errand girls,
never insulted by the men. do not lose their
feminiDity in the least. dress just as well a.
other women left at home. knit and sew during
the luncheon hour, develop their minds so 70
read even the financial columns in the newspa-
pers, take home the magazines, beautify ths
commonest rooms in the meanest tenementst
and never are known to be concerned in single
scandal. such as are found in the churches and
the parlors of rpper-tendom.
.Such nousense!" the woman exclaimed.
''such delicious dreaming! Why. when | read
about these new Ewes in the new commercial
Garden of Eden, WAS positively on the verge
same maidens ride up and down town with In
tho cars occasionally; the same that / am for
ever meeting on the streets But there is no
mistake about it. They are the same. And yet
men will believe that series OF discoveries about
our sex. They are certain to do For two
reasons: First because half the male sex has
women. the limit of which has yet
reached; second. because tho other half who en-
ploy women on starvation wages WILL after
reading of the good they doing sex,
saive their consciences with thoughts of the
philanthropy of substituting girls for at
half pay. and will discharge more men.
their girls. As proof of the sudden
elevation of womannood. it is announced
that the cashier of the largest ladies' shopping
store In town is young girl But she is paid
sniy one-Ealf what competent would get
Another notable instance of the wonders Of tho
female revolution is that ali the clerical work OF
a certain large concern on Broadway is per-
formed by beautiful young ladies in fashionable
gowns. sincerely trust that tho reference 10
not to the establishments that is pointed 10 by
all it's neigh borhood with very rigid finger Of
suspicion because the employer and tho beauti-
full young girls are known to 20 into the country
together over Sundays-one this Sunday and an
other the next-aud to lunch with him one at
time, and to quit work and stroll up town with
him, and know not what the merchants of the
district do not say But no woman with any
gumption judgment would dwell upon cases
like that as represent tative of female working
life, for it does not take much experience PEN
etration to know that women who drudge
and toll for the wages the sex get in the city
must be made of tough-ibred virtue. Shame
and hard work not friendly One is not
often caught in the society of the other. But IL
is a wee little rrife too much to read of elevat.
ing the young woman by putting her to work az
mems work just when you are in the midst of
ten-years-spell of wondering what can be done
to rescue your sex from the injury this life il
doing to it. For that is exactly my case. Fc
years have been perplexing myself with won
der when the world would make M to this abuse
of women / would rather have the stage
formed, the ballet purified. the pulpit unsexed,
the laws invoked against women's work in shops
ard factories. or any hundred of thousand
awfully radical things done TO rel ease my
from this yoke of mans greed, than have the
present state of things continue"
This is bitter talk. truly, and yet IL came from
g woman who has phanthropically studied he
subject CLARA BELLE.